[LV] Now for another bit of noise , ok any noise ...

Mr. James W. Laferriere babydr at baby-dragons.com
Sun Mar 1 19:52:53 CET 2009


 	Hello Maciej ,

On Sun, 1 Mar 2009, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> Hi James,
>
>>  	After another ~ 6 Months of silence since the last time I piped up here
>> .  There hasn't been any other notes on this list .  I am beginning to think
>> the linux-vax port is dead .
>
> Well, I'm not dead and so is not the port. :)
 	This is very good news ,  Both parts :) .

>>  	I hope someone will respond with something positive and that the list &
>> project are NOT dead & People are still activily modifying code & just not
>> communicating their successes &/or failures here .
>
> I can't speak for the others, but myself I've been recently working on
> code (and cursing broken patches for the compiler) more actively then
> ever.  If you volunteer to become a tester, then I will have a nice
> surprise for you soon, i.e. once I have something remotely buildable and
> ready to debug. ;)  Hopefully that'll happen in less than half a year's
> time.  Stay tuned.
 	Test ? He says ,  I've been ready for the last 2-4 Years to test .
 	I check this mail-list everry few hours (usually) .
 	I very much hope for something to test ,  Tho sure would be nice to have 
a user environment .  But I'll play with anything to keep this port alive .

> That TURBOchannel patch I posted two years ago ;) needs polishing and
> including too, but that's next.
>  Maciej
 	Well all my Vax'n are qbus so turbochannel isn't inside my testability 
at this time .  But most anything else I can test .

 		Thank You ,  JimL
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